MINUTES
OF THE
MADISON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION,
HOLDEN AT
SMITHFIELD, IN THE COUNTY OF MADISON,
SEPTEMBER 13th and 14th, 1809.

UTICA:
PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION,
BY SEWARD AND WILLIAMS.
1809.

Minutes, Ec.

Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1809.

I. AT 10 o'clock, A. M Elder Hosmer delivered a discourse from Phil. i. 27, 28--
. . .
2. A Moderator and Clerk were chosen, and after prayer by the Moderator, read
the letters from the Several churches, and took the following list of their
messengers, with their alteration the year past, and the present number of each
church.

The Churches of 2 Brookfield, Columbus, Solon, and 2 Eaton,
received this session,
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3. Received Messengers from the Otsego Association, viz: Brethren
Abbot, Luther and Osborn. From Rensselaerville--Minutes.--Cayuga,
no information. Whom, with other visiting brethren, were invited to
take a seat with us.

4. Appointed Brother Ferris to write a letter of correspondense to
the Otsego Association : Br. Bennet to the Rensselaerville : Br.
Peck to the Cayuga; and Br. Seaver to the Black River Assocation,
with whome we wish to open a correspondence. Prayter by Br.
Roots, and we adjourned till 9 o'clock, A. M. to-morrow.

5. THURSDAY, SEPT. 14.
Met according to adjournment : after singing and prayer, read and
accepted the corresponding letters; also a circular to the Churches.

HAMILTON BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY
This Society has been in operation now two years. Several
Missionaries have been employed chiefly on the Holland purchase,
with encouraging prospects of instrumentally advan-

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cing the Zion of God. The Editor regrets that he has not the
returns of the Missionaries to lay such extracts from them before
the churches and the public as this sheet will admit. Elder Ashbel
Hosmer is President; Br. Joseph Colwell, Secretary, and Dea.
Olmstead, Treasurer. Their annual meeting is held at the same
place with this Association, the day previous, at 2 o'clock, P.M. A
general attendance of the members if requested.

CIRCULAR LETTER.

THE Elders and Messengers composing the Madison Association, to
the Churches they represent, GREETING :
Although this is the first time we address you in our present
connexion, yet we do not now address you as strangers, for various
and important have been the subject of those letters to you in our
former connexion with the Otsego Association. We have some of
us, from the first settlement of this country, been acquainted with
each other, and seen much of the Lord's goodness wherewith he
that visited us.
. . . .
By order, and in behalf of the Association,
ORA BUTLER, Moderator,
EBENEZER WAKELEY, Clerk.